four days behind

Sorry it's been a couple days since I last blogged, easy explanation is riding late and to tired to blog and on hotel didn't have wi-fi.
So after we left Gainsville we headed to the Shenandoah Mt. range, it cost ten dollars to ride through the park, about 95 miles, wow what a beautiful road, scenery, it was just an awesome ride. Connected tot the end of the Shenandoah range was the Blue Mountain parkway. Just as nice scenery but the road wasn't in as good as condition as the Shenandoah ride, there is a lot to say for paying tolls after riding the two different sections.
That night we ended up in Alcoa, Tennessee. Up bright and early to go and one of the Harley had a dead battery, one hundred and thirty seven dollars and two hours late we were back on the road.

A Little farther south west on Highway 129, we rode the Tail of the Dragon, this road looks like it was designed by a guy with wooden leg hobbling on a cane, chasing his goats. This road is eleven miles long and has 318 turns or corners. Fifteen motorcycle deaths on the road so far this, they never said how many crashes thou. They have a store at the end of the tail, with a tree in the parking lot. (tree of shame) It is covered with parts from all the crashes. An absolute must to ride if you are in the area. From there we went to the Cherhola Highway and up towards Nashville. We were going to try and get to Memphis, ran stormed blew in and off the road and into a hotel we went. We spent a night a t a Best Western in Kingstown, about thirty miles south west of Nashville, don't ever stay there was expensive compared to the rest of our hotels the roof leaked and no wi-fi and a brutal continental breaky. okay I liked the bananas but I didn't get one. From Nashville we tried to get to Salina In Kansas, didn't happen with a break down we lost about an hour plus, it was getting dark, like 1030 at night dark, time to hit a hotel. That was a real long day, straight into bed up early and on the road a 6:30. Friday was a cold and cloudy day we ran and got into Colorado Springs about 4:00 on Friday. We had to put in lot of seat time to make up for our play time in the south east on those cool roads.

Today Saturday the Firefighter Memorial, it is a bit of a somber place today, last night was a bit of a party, today a little quieter. Lots of families here for the memorial, 87 new names going on the wall, 87 families to receive flags. The toughest of the tough were all shedding tears, A young wife next to us received here flag, she held it together real good until the presentation, then she fell apart, very upsetting for all of us sitting there.

Husbands, wife's, mothers, fathers and children all here, very slobbering times. Bells were tolled each time a name was read and a flag was passed out. I think I will just leave it there......